7 must-read adult books like How to Survive History: How to Outrun a Tyrannosaurus, Escape Pompeii, Get Off the Titanic, and Survive the Rest of History's Deadliest Catastrophes by Cody Cassidy

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How to Survive History: How to Outrun a Tyrannosaurus, Escape Pompeii, Get Off the Titanic, and Survive the Rest of History's Deadliest Catastrophes

By: Cody Cassidy

4.06

Format: 195 pages, Paperback

A detailed guide to surviving history’s most challenging threats, from outrunning dinosaurs to maki…

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1. How to Survive History: How to Outrun a Tyrannosaurus, Escape Pompeii, Get Off the Titanic, and Survive the Rest of History's Deadliest Catastrophes

By: Cody Cassidy

4.06

Format: 195 pages, Paperback

A detailed guide to surviving history’s most challenging threats, from outrunning dinosaurs to maki… read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • adventure
  • time travel
  • historical
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • comedy
  • science
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2. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

By: David Mitchell

4.16

Format: 433 pages, ebook

A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
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"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

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3. Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues

By: Jonathan Kennedy

3.94

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An account of how the major transformations in history—from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth o… read more

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  • science
  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Pathogens thrive on inequality and injustice."

-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues

"Across the whole of the Americas, the introduction of infectious diseases from Europe resulted in a 90 percent fall in the population, from about 60.5 million in 1500 to 6 million a century later."

-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues

"There is one universally incorrect choice: do nothing. This didn't work when humans thought that plagues were a punishment sent by angry gods. Nor does a laissez-faire approach help stop disease when…"

-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues

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4. The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder

By: Douglas Preston

3.81

Format: 299 pages, Hardcover

Douglas Preston, the #1 bestselling author of The Lost City of the Monkey God , presents jaw-droppi… read more

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  • history
  • adventure
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Most Delicious Poison: The Story of Nature's Toxins―From Spices to Vices by Noah Whiteman

5. Most Delicious Poison: The Story of Nature's Toxins―From Spices to Vices

By: Noah Whiteman

3.73

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An evolutionary biologist tells the story of nature’s toxins and why we are attracted—and addicted—… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science
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6. Surely You Can't Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane!

By: David Zucker

4.17

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Surely You Can't Be Serious is an in-depth and hysterical look at the making of 1980's comedy class… read more

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  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
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7. After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations

By: Eric H. Cline

3.84

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In this gripping sequel to his bestselling 1177 B.C., Eric Cline tells the story of what happened a… read more

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  • science
  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
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Cover of A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire by Emma Southon

8. A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire

By: Emma Southon

4.23

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum comes a wildly entertai… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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9. 100 Places to See After You Die: A Travel Guide to the Afterlife

By: Ken Jennings

3.30

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author and legendary Jeopardy! host and champion Ken Jennings comes… read more

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  • history
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Edison's Ghosts: The Untold Weirdness of History’s Greatest Geniuses by Katie Spalding

10. Edison's Ghosts: The Untold Weirdness of History’s Greatest Geniuses

By: Katie Spalding

3.81

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Overturn everything you knew about history’s greatest minds in this raucous and hilarious book, whe… read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • historical
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • science
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11. Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close

By: Hannah Carlson

3.62

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

“Who knew the humble pocket could hold so much history? In this enthralling and always surprising a… read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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12. How to Take Over the World: Practical Schemes and Scientific Solutions for the Aspiring Supervillain

By: Ryan North

4.01

Format: 388 pages, Hardcover

A tongue-in-cheek introduction to the science of comic-book supervillainy, revealing the true poten… read more

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  • science
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Year of Living Constitutionally: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution's Original Meaning by A.J. Jacobs

13. The Year of Living Constitutionally: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution's Original Meaning

By: A.J. Jacobs

4.08

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically attempts to follow the origi… read more

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  • history
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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14. 2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed

By: Eric Klinenberg

3.88

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A renowned sociologist and bestselling author examines a year of upheaval and conflict, showing how… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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Cover of The Cancer Factory: Industrial Chemicals, Corporate Deception, and the Hidden Deaths of American Workers by Jim             Morris

15. The Cancer Factory: Industrial Chemicals, Corporate Deception, and the Hidden Deaths of American Workers

By: Jim Morris

3.97

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

The story of a group of Goodyear Tire and Rubber workers fatally exposed to toxic chemicals, the la… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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Cover of Cracking the Nazi Code: The Untold Story of Canada's Greatest Spy by Jason Bell

16. Cracking the Nazi Code: The Untold Story of Canada's Greatest Spy

By: Jason Bell

3.94

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The thrilling true story of Agent A12, the earliest enemy of the Nazis In public life, Dr. Winth… read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Insane Emperors, Sunken Cities, and Earthquake Machines by Garrett Ryan

17. Insane Emperors, Sunken Cities, and Earthquake Machines

By: Garrett Ryan

4.08

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

Did the ancient Greeks and Romans have conspiracy theories? Did they come close to an industrial re… read more

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  • history
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Cover of You'll Do: A History of Marrying for Reasons Other Than Love by Marcia A. Zug

18. You'll Do: A History of Marrying for Reasons Other Than Love

By: Marcia A. Zug

3.75

Format: 329 pages, Kindle Edition

An illuminating and thought-provoking examination of the uniquely American institution of marriage,… read more

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  • history
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"The social and cultural preference for marriage has obvious negative effects for single people, but it also harms the married. A desire to retain marriage's preferential status is on of the most cite…"

-Marcia A. Zug, You'll Do: A History of Marrying for Reasons Other Than Love

"As marriage became "proof" of black respectability, this induced many freedmen and women to marry, but it also encouraged the black community to exert pressure on those who resisted..."The colored pe…"

-Marcia A. Zug, You'll Do: A History of Marrying for Reasons Other Than Love

"Black men had fewer opportunities to become wealthy and were specifically encourages, often by the US government, to look to marriage, rather than wealth, as a source of social status. The government…"

-Marcia A. Zug, You'll Do: A History of Marrying for Reasons Other Than Love

Cover of Monsters on the Couch: The Real Psychological Disorders Behind Your Favorite Horror Movies by Brian A. Sharpless

19. Monsters on the Couch: The Real Psychological Disorders Behind Your Favorite Horror Movies

By: Brian A. Sharpless

4.07

Format: 286 pages, Paperback

Horror movies can reveal much more than we realize about psychological disorders—and clinical psych… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Outspoken: My Fight for Freedom and Human Rights in Afghanistan by Sima Samar

20. Outspoken: My Fight for Freedom and Human Rights in Afghanistan

By: Sima Samar

4.49

Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition

NATIONAL BESTSELLERThe impassioned memoir of Afghanistan's Sima medical doctor, public official, f… read more

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"Mothers as brave as lionesses, poor Belcourt children, little Kabyles starving to death in 1939 – those people also earned the applause."

-Sima Samar, Outspoken: My Fight for Freedom and Human Rights in Afghanistan

"They are staring at the photographer in perplexity. A few even wear naive smiles, as if forgetting the extreme poverty of the arid plains."

-Sima Samar, Outspoken: My Fight for Freedom and Human Rights in Afghanistan

"If hope and optimism could be measured in facial expressions, the smiles and sparkling eyes in the room that day would have guaranteed our success"

-Sima Samar, Outspoken: My Fight for Freedom and Human Rights in Afghanistan

"In the intoxication of being twenty and swept up by my reading, I hoped to live in the light of day, in joy, refusing submission, shackles and conformity."

-Sima Samar, Outspoken: My Fight for Freedom and Human Rights in Afghanistan

20 Best audiobook books like How to Survive History: How to Outrun a Tyrannosaurus, Escape Pompeii, Get Off the Titanic, and Survive the Rest of History's Deadliest Catastrophes by Cody Cassidy

Transform Your Habits

How to Survive History: How to Outrun a Tyrannosaurus, Escape Pompeii, Get Off the Titanic, and Survive the Rest of History's Deadliest Catastrophes

Cody Cassidy

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

David Mitchell

4.16

Transform Your Habits

Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues

Jonathan Kennedy

3.94

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The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder

Douglas Preston

3.81

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Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball

Keith O'Brien

4.43

Transform Your Habits

The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq

Steve Coll

4.44

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Great Expectations

Vinson Cunningham

3.35

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There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

Hanif Abdurraqib

4.40

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